Egypt is in north-eastern Africa and borders Israel, the Gaza Strip, Sudan and Libya. Egypt is famous as the home of the ancient Egyptian civilization, with its temples, hieroglyphs, mummies and pyramids. The Suez Canal in Egypt is the largest man-made waterway in the world and joins the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Some people blamed the sinking of the Titanic on a mummified Egyptian priestess whom the doomed ship was transporting.